Re: Origin of the Etruscan people?

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:36:51 GMT, prd <X_header@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In sci.archaeology message
>news:4hs0r1hdo7lnkf2ftfs73g9deen7bn17rq@xxxxxxx by Hayabusa
><peregrine@xxxxxxxxxxx> . . . :
>

>> Hm. Where did the Sards come from in the first place? Most
>> likely from the mainland via Corsica and Elba. From? Right,
>> Tuscany. So why should the language in Sardinia and Tuscany be
>> vastly different in the first place?
>>
>> Sardinia was settled 7000 BCE (by roughly 1000 individuals).
>
>Probably much longer ago than that.
>Molecular clocking papers from poor calibration, thing on the order
>of 10 to 14 kya.

Look, you cant't just ignore the archaeological evidence. There aren't
any human traces older than 7000 BCE, it's as simple as that.

>Other than that, Sardinia was colonized by two principle groups of
>people, the A30B18 component carriers from North africa, with a huge
>settlement bias so I would predict they were the first. The second
>are from palestine [this paper technically doesn't exist, I can give
>you the reference but. . . . .].

I have no problem with north africans coming to Sardinia, this is a
known historical fact - in form of the Carthagenian occupation troops
who built a fort along the south coast, and who ruled the southern
plain; the indigenous people built several defense lines which can
still be seen, around 500 BCE, but not earlier.

Apart from that me thinks that sometimes you are stretching your data
too far. People moving from some point on the mainland to an island
they can see (Corse), and on to another island they can see from the
new point (Sardegna), cause less headache to me than people moving
across the open sea to unlikely places.

fkoe

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